Quiz Bowl Physics
Semiconductors
Schottky Barrier. N-Type or P-Type. Doping. Bohr Radii. Fermi Level.
Magnetic Field
Solenoid. Faraday's Law. Divergence = 0 (Gauss). Zeeman Effect. Biot-Savart.
Kinetic Energy
This/Volume = Dynamic Pressure. Gamma Minus One. 3/2*Boltz*Temp. Capital T.
Viscosity
Zahn Cup. Ostwald-de-Waele. Stoke's Law. Kolmogorov. Thixotropic. Sutherland Formula. Prandtl Number.
Ferromagnetism
applied field in hysteresis. Curie Temperature. Onsager. Ising Model. Stoner Criterion. Barkhausen Effect. Bethe-Slater Curve.
Photon
2 of these are a product of Electron-Positron annihilation. Compton Effect. Klein-Nishina Formula. QED Theory.
Temperature
3/2 * Boltzmann's Constant * this = KE. 2/3 * Boltzmann's Constant * KE = This. Carnot. Blackbody Radiation. 0th Law of Thermodynamics. Conjugate Variable of Entropy.
Plasma
Beta Plasma (Ratio of 2 pressures). Dusty Plasma contains grains. Motion is drift and circular around the guiding center. Vlasov Equation. Hannes Alfven.
Mass
Black holes are characterized by charge, angular momentum, and this. Generated by Higgs Mechanic. Directly proportional to Luminosity. Yang-Mills. Schwarzschild Radius is 2G times this. Neutrino Flavor Oscillations occur because of a non-zero value of this.
Enstein
Brownian Motion. Namesake Field Equations. Stress-Energy Tensor. Photoelectric Effect. Cosmological Constant. Improved on Debye. Smoluchowski. Szilard. Stimulated Emission.
Neutrino
Constant Product of 2 Eigenvalues is used to explain the seesaw. Double Beta Decay Implies Own Antiparticle. Flavor oscillations because of Mass. Cherenkov Detectors in Super-Kamiokande. Posed by Pauli. MSW Effect. Homestake.
Entropy
Constant with Temp in Carnot. Boltzmann Constant * Ln(#ofMicroStates). Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Torque
Derivative of Angular Momentum. Rotational Analogue of Force. Precession of Gyroscope. Newton-Meters.
Electron
Drude Model. JJ Thompson Plum Pudding. Millikin's Oil Drop (Charge). Cooper Pairs. Auger Effect. Sommerfeld.
Diffusion
Einstein-Smoluchowski. Fick's First Law. Mobility*Temperature*Boltzmann's Constant.
Spin
Fermions Have Half Integer, Bosons have Integer. Stern-Gerlach(Silver Atoms). G-Factor slightly off from 2.
Laser
First Bose-Einstein Condensate. Q-Switching. Doppler Effect to cool. Mode-Locking.
Linear Momentum
M*V. Conservation can be derived from Noether's Theorem. Impulse is a change in this. Phase Space (all possible positions and this). This is the Fourier transform of position. (conjugate variable is position). TRANSLATIONAL INVARIANCE. CANONICAL FORM. De Broglie (PLANCK/THIS = WAVELENGTH). KE = P^2/2M. Minkowski-Abraham controversy.
Velocity
Four-Vector. Reynolds Number. Lorentz Gamma Factor.
Reflection
Fresnel Equations. Lambert's Cosine Law. Brewster's Law.
Doppler Effect
Gravitational Form. Ives-Stillwell Experiment (Canal Rays). Walter Kundig. Dicke Effect. Broaden Spectral Lines. Blood through Artery.
Photoelectric Effect
Hertz. Einstein. Planck's Constant and Work function.
Superconductors
Josephson Junction. Cooper Pairs. YBCO. London Equations. London Penetration. Meissner Effect. Ginzburg-Landau Theory.
Voltage
Kirchhoff's Second Law. Power = Current * this.
Diffraction
LIGHT BENDS AROUND. Huygens Principle. Bragg's Law. Babinet's Principle. Rayleigh Criterion.
Higgs Boson
Large Hadron Collider. 0 spin. Symmetry Breaking.
Speed of Light
Lorentz Factor. Larmor Formula.
Index of Refraction
Lorentz-Lorenz. Gladstone-Dale. Kerr Effect. Snell's Law. Brewster's Angle.
Black Hole
Mass, Charge, and Angular Momentum. Kerr Metric. Schwarzschild Radius.
Pontential Energy
Particle In a Box. Capital V subtracted. Virial Theorem.
Harmonic Oscillators
Pendulum and Spring. Hooke's Law. Taylor Series.
Quark
Planck Epoch Plasma With Gluons. Emission of W Boson color change. Color confinement. Mesons made of 2. CKM Matrix. Gell-Man. Eightfold Way.
Friction
Plotted against Reynolds number in a Moody chart. Darcy-Weisbach. Asperities are responsible. Amontons' Second Law states dry friction. MU*Normal Force. Stribeck curve. Tomlinson Model. Painleve Paradox. TRIBOLOGY.
Angular Momentum
Poinsot's Construction. Rotational Analogue of Linear Momentum. Clebsh-Gordon. Rotational Invariance. Noether's Theorem. Black holes are characterized by charge, this, and mass.
Gravity
Pound-Rebka (Redshift caused by this). Spin 2 Particle. Loop Theory. Spin Foam. Eotvos.
Moment of Inertia
Tennis Racket Theorem. Stretch Rule. Rotational Analogue of Mass. Parallel Axis Theorem.